Poor Ashlee
What a horrible, nerve-wracking experience that must have been.
I don't know if anyone else will pick this up, but when Ashlee Simpson finished her song at the end of the Orange Bowl halftime show, they booed. I mean, really booed. Not an isolated pocket of "boo" or "woo" or a random confluence of sound waves that resembled a chorus of "oohs", but a full-out, concerted, unified team effort uniting the Sooner fans and the Trojan faithful in one common point of agreement: Ashlee Simpson needs to seriously consider either a) keeping her singing in the studio, or b) hanging up her singing hat, and getting more use out of her reciting-lines-on-TV-and-looking-pretty hat.
I'm just afraid she doesn't get it. She croaked. I mean, literally croaked. Squeaked. Again and again. I wasn't really surprised when I heard the Wave of Boo coming from that stadium. And it's not like this is the first time she's gagged in a gig with a live national audience. Last time she said it was because of a sore throat; I wonder how (or if) this one will play out.
Look, I know it must be hard growing up in the shadow of the person named #1 in Maxim's Hot 100. Jessica's pretty. She's successful. She's got a hit TV show. And she can sing. And somehow she's avoided horribly embarassing incidents on live TV.
And I really don't want to dog on the girl. She's incredibly successful on her own, without having to be compared to her sister. But she really needs to fix the screeching. Because it was pretty bad.
Update: Yup, looks like I heard what I thought I heard. Video here.
Posted by Matt at January 4, 2005 9:52 PM
